Acting
Blending traditional Irish folklore with the modern struggle of addiction, The Cure follows Aoife, an insecure smoker desperate to quit. Returning home to rural Ireland, she seeks out Liam Finnegan, a reclusive seventh son of a seventh son renowned for possessing the gift of “The Cure.” But when Liam's attempt to help goes disastrously wrong, Aoife's addiction takes on a terrifying physical form: a sinister creature that feeds on her cravings and threatens to consume her entirely.
A famed writer comes home to an Irish castle to complete his long overdue second novel, but is plagued by a rogues' gallery of local villagers who refuse to leave him alone. As time passes and he struggles to finish his book, their intrusions become increasingly disruptive and eventually, more sinister.
On his final shift, a worn-down hospital employee decides to indulge a patient's fantasy that he is the president of Ireland.
Stuck repeating the same pattern of mistakes again and again, Andrew Egan reluctantly accepts a teaching job to support his floundering, stand-up comedy career. As an increasingly anxious Andrew grows accustomed to the droll institution and its occupants he suspects that one of the students may be his downfall and that the previous teacher may not have left of his own accord. His life slowly unraveling, Andrew's lessons fall on deaf ears and he soon becomes part of a larger cosmic joke.
The film centres on local small-town GAA football "outside the bright lights of Croke Park", following a player who struggles to get back into the sport after an injury.
